tiredofsametab @ tiredofsametab @kbin.social

Canadian-American software developer living in Japan since 2015. Into garde

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I didn't recall hearing of this person before (though more likely I forgot) and looked him up. I couldn't even make it through the above video, but he's definitely doing something right, heh. Different strokes for different folks.

I did make it to Ohio and now want some Donatos, which is a phrase I never would have expected to come out of my mouth.

50-50 from my experience, but I'd say sample size is too small to say.

Yeah, I wish the government would do something. Preferably something that exists today, but I trust they'd want to make their own shitty app. At least then it'd be in one place, I suppose. Emergency alerts on phones are a thing for many people, but not everything is that level of emergency.

A heat index is not an actual temperature reading. This is disingenuous and people whom don't want to believe in things like climate change will latch on to and discredit people for things like this.

I don't own a car and renting one for the day is stupidly expensive. I'd also have to drive a car on Tokyo streets and I'm not a fan of that at all, heh. With a bike, at least it's not as claustrophobic.

The app itself has alerts so I'm surprised people are using Twitter to get it's alerts. I don't use Twitter, but I didn't know that was a thing. NERV is the fastest-alerting app I've found on Android for quakes here. Good on them, though, for better use of their money and getting off that hellhole.

As others have mentioned, Twitter is huge in Japan. Almost no small businesses have websites; they market and show availability etc. through Insta, FB, and twitter

As someone who drove his motorcycle today instead of taking the train, I'm getting a kick out of this. Costco runs on the train are quite difficult. About 4 times a year, I go to Costco and the extra storage on my bike means I can make those trips at that frequency rather than more often. Most of my other shopping is done on foot or, if I need something from a specific shop, by train. Some things (like large blocks of cheese) I can only really find at Costco here in Japan. Same with American-style bacon.

Speed limits are definitely lower here, and our trains are better than Amtrack, so I think both of those number will be lower.

Hrm. Pixel 6 here. Just ran updates of all apps and still no translation for me :/

EDIT: I did have a system update of like 28MB. Downloaded it. Waited about an hour (maybe even more) for it to finish "optimizing". Restarted. Searched again for app updates and had only one that was something about shared services. Still no translate.

I have known people who have gone through the same thing in the US. I also have family in the US still who very much are impacted by the housing situation there.

This just reeks of "foreigners bad" and possibly racism.

There are many things that can be done other than banning foreigners who haven't yet achieved greencard status but just want to have a place for themselves and their families to live to still achieve that. I don't think you'll find foreigners are the big issue here, and you already mentioned corporations which are a big issue. Attacking foreigners wanting to buy a house is not OK; that's approaching apartheid-level bullshit.

Japan has a fee on any device capable of receiving a television signal (cost varies based on capabilities) used to fund the NHK and one reason was to keep the government influence out. Today, it still often has huge bias and avoids certain reporting and tows government lines. Sometimes translations over English or other languages completely changes what the people are really saying. NHK does produce some good programming, but they also are definitely up the ruling party's ass.

I mean, this is just dodging the situation. I'm a hardworking, tax-paying person, but fuck me because some other people are doing bad things? That's not good policy. Stopping people living in the country on valid status paying taxes from buying a place to live is asinine.

Well, where else would they store dirt? It's not like you can just put it on the ground or something; on people is the only clear, reasonable choice!

I go to the office a few times a year, mostly for all-hands meetings that are often also parties. Any more than that, and I'm looking for a new job. Recently, the company mentioned something about making the office more enticing. That went over like a lead balloon. There are a lot of other companies in the same city with better pay for in-office and hybrid work, and many of us live 1.5+ hours away.

So if that process takes a decade or more the person can just... go fuck themselves despite any intention of permanently living somewhere? This is especially rough on people who move mid-life. I also don't know if the US has an upper age on mortgages which could basically keep people out of home ownership which can also keep them in a position of less stability.

I would say "valid status of residence/visa" (greencard/permanent residence can be super long processes of over a decade), but yeah that makes sense to me.

Yeah, it was definitely up during corona. All domestic abuse was up then (and in a lot of the world).

For your first link, it states that the abuse found is more extreme, but the source they link to doesn't work. I do remember the horrible story of that poor child from the news here. It then goes on to just give numbers with no citations or sources whatsoever. The whole publication also seems a bit weird.

Abandonment of infants is definitely a thing that happens and I'm glad that a baby hatch solution now exists.

I do agree that often abuse goes unreported and/or un-prosecuted (as do rapes and many other crimes in Japan). I just don't see anything here stating that it's on the scale I seemed to think you were saying.

Things for single mothers does need to get a lot better; making women more equal in society and actually enforcing the protections on their jobs and family leave could go a long way to this.

I've been living in Japan the better part of a decade. I've had friends from all walks of life. Some did open up to me about abuse (I was also an abused child for a good chunk of my childhood and have sometimes talked about it), but I've really heard no more here than in the US. There are two problems with this. (1) it's anecdotal based on the experience of one guy in Tokyo and (2) what some people would call abuse, others would not making things even more sticky.

I do think that, whatever the scale of abuse, non-zero is too much and that should be addressed, but I also don't think it's some super-regular thing which is what I think you were intending to write,

assuming you can even find childcare

I think this needs an 'affordable' thrown in. The free and cheap stuff is really hard to get into, but there are other, more expensive options (though out of reach of most).

plenty of Japanese adults grew up being abused and/or neglected by their own parents

Do what now? Source?

Security in IT here in Japan has largely been an afterthought or security theatre. Passwords stored in plaintext are not uncommon (I've signed up for things and had my password in plaintext sent in email back to me). It seems to be getting better slowly. My current company has a whole security division, which is a nice change.

NDAs prevent me from being too specific, but I worked previously at another company in Japan that refused to hire security staff or even pay for the occasional pen test and audit. I fixed everything I could find on my own, but I highly doubt that there were no other issues left as I'm not a security pro.

Then you have things like https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46222026 -- the cyber security MP has never used a computer. Even if their job is mostly to appoint the right people and manage that sort of thing, they still are doing a clearly terrible job of it.

Neat! I didn't know that. Is that common in other Slavic languages?

or　だ or some other ones, but yes.